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On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 18:29:10 GMT, ianmarti@ihug.com.au (mutant freak)
wrote:

>Back in the 1980's, around the time of Australia's Bicentennial, I was
>a Computer Systems Officer Grade 1 for a certain public sector
>organization. My duties involved writing a comparative evaluation of
>the then popular word processing software packages Wordstar and
>Wordperfect. In those days software documentation for these two
>packages came in hard copy format, in ring binders. The colour
>of the cover of the Wordstar documentation was dark red  and the
>colour of the cover of the Wordperfect documentation was some shade of
>blue.  The colours of these two folders was soon incorporated into
>popular apparel fashion. I have a photograph of my late mother
>wearing  in the last week of her life a shirt incoporating alternate
>vertical stripes of wordstar red and wordperfect blue. 
>I was retired invalidity in 1989. Such was my illness that I did not
>touch a computer for nine years. In the intervening years, the web
>arrived. 
>In December 1997, I decided to rehabilitate myself. I had just been
>discharged from hospital. I went to a nearby computer shop and brought
>myself a personal computer, and went online to the internet.
>Then it happened again. The grey colour of the internet explorer 
>browser started to appear on peoples shirts, in vertical stripes.
>I was not at the time working for a public sector organization.
>A few weeks ago, I purchased a set of academic regalia
>and started wearing it when I walked the streets. 
>I wore the regalia for my Graduate Diploma in Computing
>from the Faculty Of Information Technology, Monash University.
>The regalia consisted of a trencher cap, ie mortarboard,
>a black gown, and a spectrum green stole.
>Now begins the saga of spectrum green. It has started
>appearing on peoples attire, and on print media colouring.
>For example, look at the August/September 2000  of the
>Australian Computer Society's Information Age magazine.
>The masthead "Information Age" is printed in spectrum green,
>as is the lower background. The advertising insert for the
>CMACS certification program is mostly done in spectrum green.
>On page 33 of The Australian newspaper for  September 5 2000, the
>first page of 
>the Australian IT section, is an article "Myefone turns emails
>into voice messages". The article is accompanied by a 
>photograph of Mr Fortunatow, featuring a vivid colour
>streak of spectrum green.
>As well as being a Member  of the Australian Computer Society, the
>Association for Computing Machinery, and The Institute of Electrical
>and Electronics Engineers,  I am a member of the Australasian
>Political Studies Association, the organization for political
>scientists, see 
>http://www.une.edu.au/apsa/main.htm. As a political scientist,
>this sort of colour game has me very worried.
>You can look me up at
>http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/alumni/1981/Ajzenszmidt.Ian.html.
>
>Mr Ian Martin Ajzenszmidt BA(Hons) Melb, GradDipComputing Monash MACS
>
Furthermore, consider the case of that famous computer, the Apple
IMAC. My initials are IMA and I happen to be an MACS.
Concattenated together, and deleting the final "S" from the
MACS, you get IMAC. Furthermore, the Appple IMAC is multi-coloured,
which fits in well with spectrum green, wordstar red and wordperfect
blue. 
Consider the case of Debian Linux. In the period
1984 - 1988 I was married to a lady named Deborah.
My name is Ian. Deborah + Ian = Debian.
And this is from United States businesses.